Not 100% there but getting close to printing some pretty good looking parts out of ABS. hopefully means I will have some assembled bots soon.

The PLA test version of Crabulon weighed in at 160g with 20% print. Still lots of weight to add armor, weapons etc but I have redesigned it to use less material for the final print. Id ideally like it to be under the wheeled ant limit prior to any additions.

So my plan for Ant freeze / AWS 57 is weapons. Of all the ants I have made, only one had a weapon which lasted about 3 seconds thanks to a horizontal spinner.

So I plan at this point to have 4 bots for those events.

Crabulon: Current plans for Crabulon is to try and make it a Klann-linkage shuffler. I have several designs for more efficient closed cam shufflers and was working on shuffle drive pods when I decided that Crabulons purpose is not to win, but to look as cool as possible. one of my personal fave robots is Mechadon, an absolutely useless robot but my it looks cool. So my aim with Crabulon is to make it look cool, though I have some ideas for a weapon system fit for the crab lord...

Robototron The MK 5 at AWS 56 was a Frankenstein of a bot built from what I had to hand. I love the ant weight Loader with its hair band-based track system. So I hope to simplify the design of MK 5 to make an invertible track bot in a similar style. weapon wise I’m currently thinking a plow/ lifter arrangement of some form.

Huricianado I said I want to make a spinner. I stand by that Idea. So, It’s fitting that Hurricanado be the bot to do it. current plans are some kind of plastic derived full body spinner, tho This may change so something that can make be adapted from the Robototron chassis (common parts always being good. before my change of heart regarding Crabulon the plan was to be that Crabulon and Robototron would be the same chassis with different drive pods, an idea I may revisit).

Oaf 3: This is all ready designed but was unable to print prior to AWS 56. Basically, it’s the ball concept but using a icosahedron rather than a ball. For those not in the know. The icosahedron is a 20 sided shape and the shape of the 20 sided dice used in D&D. Hence Oaf 3s full name: Oaf 3: Critical fail.

So thats the plan. I will try and update this with pictures and what not as the plan develops and changes.

Also, as a side note. I will probably put Crabulon 1 on Thingverse relatively soon if people want it. I have a bot called shaunbot on there that was a test bot that never actually got printed. Should probably print that at some point...